Funded Companies List - Venture Capital and Private Equity Financings

Founded in 2015 by serial entrepreneur Jeff Kaditz, Dr. Michael Snyder and Dr. Garry Choy, Q Bio gives you a deeper understanding of your body and how it's changing, so you have more control over your health. Q Bio's platform is a quantitative, clinically-relevant assessment of personal human health. We believe in making preventive health available to everyone so that treatable diseases no longer take lives.

Q Factor radically improves user experiences over today's increasingly congested wireless networks by streamlining the distribution of content. As the world becomes more-and-more unwired, users still expect their browsing or viewing experiences on any device, in any location to be consistent, uninterrupted and high quality. For this to happen, a lot of complex data needs to make its way through the air to each device. Pieces of that data, or packets, often get lost or delayed, degrading quality and frustrating users. Q Factor's powerful technology fixes that problem and ensures users get what they want, when then want it, with no interruptions. Founded by a team of proven entrepreneurs, Q Factor is committed to changing the wireless world.

Q1Media, Inc. is a publisher-focused ad technology company. Q1Media developed and operates a proprietary Ad Tech platform that creates incremental ad inventory for publishers that is 100% viewable and programmatically valuable. Q1Media works with over 1,500 premium web and mobile publisher partners. It has a reach of over 200 million unique visitors across video, mobile and display and generates over 400 million video ad views per month according to comScore Video Metrix. Q1Media works closely with DSP's, trading desks and exchanges to maximize the value and performance of this inventory, and also directly with brands and premium publishers to deliver custom, premium advertising executions.

Q2 is a technology company that provides a comprehensive electronic banking platform consisting of high quality technology solutions that enable financial institutions and their customers to securely communicate and transact - anytime, anywhere. Its ebanking platform provides flexible deployment options for online banking, mobile and tablet banking, voice banking as well as a security application to effectively mitigate fraud risk for community focused financial institutions.

Qadium is leveraging its technology to secure the public Internet with real-time detection and classification of connected digital assets and the risks they pose to the largest organizations in the world. The company sells subscriptions of Expander, its browser-based SaaS product and associated integrations, starting at $250,000 USD per year and ranging to over $1 million USD for its largest customers. Expander surfaces facts in their relevant context regarding customers' true network boundary in real time, and pushes prioritized alerts.

Qapital is the leading personal finance app committed to helping everyday people achieve their goals. Founded in 2012 by George Friedman and Erik Akterin, the platform leverages behavioral economics to bridge the gap between intention and action when it comes to money management by making saving as seamless and enjoyable as spending. The app's goal-driven approach encourages users to save for things they aspire for, like a vacation, wedding, or down payment on a home, by turning everyday habits and guilty pleasures into opportunities to save - without even thinking about it.

QASymphony's quality assurance and testing tools speed up software development by reducing the time is takes to test software by 40%. With QASymphony's solutions, businesses have the visibility and control needed to ensure application quality in fast-paced Agile environments. Companies like Adobe, Barclays, BetterCloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, AirWatch and Vonage trust QASymphony to improve their teams' communication and productivity, while empowering them to make better software.

Qazzow is revolutionizing the consumer e-commerce experience. The company's innovative information layer offers fast, concise answers at the point of customer action, driving increased sales, reducing support costs, and yielding valuable insights to inform site improvements for the desktop, tablet, and smartphone web. Qazzow was born out of four years of scientific research at the University of Washington into how people interact with websites, both desktop and mobile.

Qeexo is the developer of FingerSense, the first touch technology to distinguish between the fingertip, knuckle, nail and stylus. FingerSense elevates the user experience of mobile devices by making devices more intelligent, more powerful and easier to use. Founded as an offshoot of Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Qeexo is headquartered in San Jose, CA, and is backed by Sierra Ventures and private investors.

Qloo is a recommendation engine where users can discover new things and places based upon the entire spectrum of their personal taste across eight categories. Available as a free mobile app and as a desktop site, Qloo takes clues from a person's taste in music, film, TV, dining, nightlife, fashion, books and travel to offer personalized suggestions. Founded in 2012 by Alex Elias and Jay Alger, Qloo is headquartered in New York City. Learn more at Qloo.com or download the free app from the Apple App Store

Qmee is a search rewards app that allows consumers who make search engine queries to receive better results and also to be paid for clicks into the links they otherwise would select for zero reward. The fastest-growing search-loyalty app, Qmee was launched in 2013 by Nick Sutton and Jonathan Knight, longtime friends and software executives with collective experience in software, investment banking and building startups. Featuring a true cash bank that allows consumers to withdraw their funds through a PayPal account or to redirect their earnings to local and national charities, Qmee is an innovator in the rewarded-search space with more than 150,000 U.S. users.

Qmerit is a leader in cloud-based, supply chain solutions that significantly improve service quality and reduce operating costs for OEM's, facility managers, and contractors. Qmerit was launched as a spin out from a Fortune 500 facility services company with over 110,000 service employees and thousands of subcontractors so we innately understand the complexities and frustrations with managing a complex, service supply chain.

Qnovo is reinventing one of the most basic foundations of mobility -- the battery and how it is charged. Qnovo develops innovative and patented charging algorithms that improve battery performance. By augmenting battery chemistry with software, Qnovo adaptive charging produces tangible consumer benefits -- faster charging, increased daily runtime and longer battery lifetime. Qnovo technology is applicable to any battery-powered application that benefits from faster charging or extended battery lifetime.

QOMPLX (formerly Fractal Industries) makes it faster and easier for organizations to integrate all of the disparate data sources across the enterprise into a unified analytics infrastructure to make better decisions at scale. This broader analytics infrastructure is provided through QOMPLX OS, an enterprise operating system that powers QOMPLX's decision platforms in cybersecurity, insurance, and quantitative finance.

Qool Therapeutics, Inc., based in Silicon Valley, is dedicated to creating non-invasive, efficient temperature management therapies to preserve cells, slow inflammation, and improve both quality and length of life. The company's proprietary patented technology is designed to provide a safe, simpler, and faster option for patients compared to other current competitive devices.

Qordoba provides teams with a platform to manage UX content across multiple apps and products. Its industry-leading NLP and emotion detection technology helps copywriters stay on-brand and on-message across user personas. Qordoba integrates with design and development tools, so that copy updates can be made without engineering resources. Companies like Postmates, VISA and Marriott use Qordoba's platform to continuously optimize and deliver UI content for consistent and personalized user experiences across mobile, web and embedded applications.

Qpex Biopharma is developing a pipeline of agents addressing critical needs for the treatment of infectious diseases in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Qpex management has a record of deep expertise in the discovery, development and regulatory approval of anti-infective medicines, including an extensive record of working with public/private partnerships focused on new antibiotics to combat antimicrobial resistance.

QPID is an intelligence system for EHRs - permitting creation of clinician-directed queries, analytics and reporting abilities in real time. The consequence is improved filtration and exception handling in health care workflow and its effect is akin to business intelligence, namely, activating stored data to reduce cost, improve revenue and quality of care delivery. QPID was founded by Dr. Michael Zalis and Mitch Harris, PhD, and developed within Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare in Boston.

QR Pharma, Inc. is a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company committed to developing therapeutics with novel approaches to the treatment of cognitive impairment in neurological disorders. QR has successfully completed animal studies in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease models; is expanding the drugs application to Huntington's, glaucoma and traumatic brain injury, was awarded $3 M from the US Army to work in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI); and has recently been chosen by the NIH for a human phase 2 clinical trial in Alzheimer's patients.

Qrvey helps businesses improve the customer experience and make more informed decisions, with the only full-cycle feedback platform covering data collection, data analysis and automating actions. Qrvey's unique multi-app platform offers many choices beyond just online surveys that can be seamlessly embedded into mobile and web environment in just a few hours. Qrvey's underlying analysis tools are designed for non-technical users, and best of all Qrvey can help businesses automate actions based on feedback.

eveloped at Harvard, Qstream helps leaders in dynamic environments keep their teams aligned on vital information and on-the-job practices via a series of daily 'challenges' delivered to any mobile device. By combining game mechanics and social engagement with an adaptive 'spaced delivery' approach, Qstream is easy to use and clinically proven to increase knowledge retention. Real-time data lets managers proactively measure and manage team capabilities. The company is based in Burlington, MA with development offices in Oregon and Dublin, Ireland.

Qu, formerly Gusto, is going beyond traditional Point of Sale (POS) technology with a singular focus on fast casual and quick service restaurant chains. Leveraging an API-first approach and a core suite of omni-channel ordering solutions, Qu delivers an enterprise-scale, cloud-based POS platform that's fast, flexible, and forward-thinking, making it easy to implement, easy to use, and easy to afford. Improved guest experience, best-in-class integrations, centralized enterprise management, and payment processor choice are some of the reasons leading restaurant chains choose Qu to help them move faster, stay nimble, and increase profits.

Founded in 2010 by President & CEO Stephen A. Panaro, Ph.D. QuaDPharma, Inc. was designed from the beginning to serve the needs of the pharmaceutical industry that relates to small-scale pre-commercial and commercial manufacturing. Dr. Panaro has synthesis expertise in Drug Discovery and Pilot Plant scale-up and has used these skills throughout his tenure at APP Pharma and Contract Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Quadric is building the world's first supercomputer designed for the real-time needs of edge devices. Quadric aims to empower developers in every industry with superpowers to create tomorrow's technology, today. The company was co-founded by technologists from MIT and Carnegie Mellon, who were previously the technical co-founders of the bitcoin computing company 21.

Qualia is redefining the way real estate is transacted by streamlining the home closing experience, removing the stress from home buying, and making the process transparent. Qualia is a one-stop shop for every aspect of a home closing, bringing all transaction participants (consumer, lender, title agent, realtor) together on to one platform to coordinate the process in real time, increasing understanding, visibility and efficiency. Qualia was founded in 2015 by Nate Baker, Joel Gottsegen, and Lucas Hansen. Since launching, the company has grown to over 60 employees.

QualiSystems offers orchestration and automation solutions that deliver agility, productivity and cost savings to data centers, converged infrastructure, software defined networks and test labs. CloudShell and TestShell automate provisioning, self-service, validation and deployment of heterogeneous infrastructure from bare metal to operations, development to deployment, and legacy to cloud and SDN. QualiSystems solutions are deployed by hundreds of service providers, enterprises, government agencies, and technology manufacturers worldwide.

Qualtrics makes sophisticated research simple. The company is a worldwide leader in enterprise data collection and analysis with software that is easy enough for an intern, but sophisticated enough for a PhD. Global organizations and research firms of all types and sizes use Qualtrics software to make better decisions based on strategic research intelligence.

Quanergy, founded in November 2012, is developing the world's leading LiDAR sensors and software for capturing and processing real-time 3D mapping data. In transportation, the data will be utilized to greatly improve the accuracy and reliability of on-board driver safety systems and enhance them with object recognition and scenario analysis capability, and also to enable autonomous driving in the future. Quanergy has established early partnerships with global automotive companies and digital map makers, and will be expanding its market footprint following introduction of the Mark VIII.

Quanergy Systems, Inc. was founded in 2012 and builds on decades of experience of its team in the areas of optics, photonics, optoelectronics, artificial intelligence software, and control systems. Quanergy offers the leading solid state LiDAR sensors and software for real-time capture and processing of high-definition 3D mapping data and object detection, tracking, and classification. Application areas include transportation, security, mapping and industrial automation. Quanergy's LiDARs lead in six key commercialization areas (price, performance, reliability, size, weight, power efficiency) while meeting the mass deployment requirements of durability and dependability using solid state technology.

Quantance's patented qBoost ET technology is a unique boosting ET architecture that enables PA efficiency to reach theoretical limits, and at the same time, dramatically increases PA transmit power. This architecture delivers the response time equivalent of a 400MHz switcher for ET systems - making the Q845 more than 100 times faster than any other mobile ET power supply solution available today.

Quantapore Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on the development of an ultra-low-cost, high-throughput DNA sequencing platform. Based in Menlo Park, CA, the company was founded in 2009 and is well on its way to the commercialization of its novel sequencing platform. The combination of low cost, long reads, simple workflow and fast sample-to-results turnaround time holds the promise to make Quantapore Inc. one of the world's leading sequencing system providers.

Quantenna Communications, Inc. is a leading developer of Full-11n semiconductor solutions for the next generation of ultra-reliable, 802.11n Wi-Fi networks. The first company to introduce a commercially available, standards-based 802.11n 4x4 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) chipset, Quantenna is focused on enabling a new wave of wireless multimedia entertainment solutions that require extremely predictable performance, rock-solid reliability, and easy service deployment in order to support whole-home, full HD video distribution and networking services over standard Wi-Fi networks.

Quanterix Corporation is developing its proprietary Single Molecule Array (SiMoA) technology for the in vitro diagnostics and life science research markets. The digital nature of SiMoA yields unprecedented assay performance, stemming from a 1,000-fold improvement in sensitivity compared with today's analog only technology. SiMoA will enable researchers in life science to validate novel, low abundance biomolecules from a single droplet of blood, leading to greater insight into disease detection, diagnosis, therapy selection and disease monitoring.

Quantia, Inc. is a leader in Physician Relationship Management. We enable meaningful communication between physicians, clinicians and major healthcare organizations. As the creator of QuantiaMD, the largest online physician community, we are experts in physician engagement and alignment. Our web-based and mobile platform uses a blend of social media, game mechanics and engagement science to help clients, organizations such as health systems and life sciences companies, collaborate with physicians to reduce costs, save time and improve quality of care.

QuantiaMD is the largest online community and collaboration platform for physicians. Here, 160,000 physicians share real-life experiences from clinical practice, nationwide, in minutes - rapidly, and in large numbers - allowing them to adapt to changes faster and apply the latest medical thinking to their practices. Through QuantiaMD's platform, healthcare organizations can quickly engage and align physicians to achieve important objectives and goals that lead to better quality of care. Built from the ground up for how physicians work today, QuantiaMD is easy-to-use, secure and fully mobile.

QuanticMind, the Platform for Smarter Advertising, is a rapidly growing software-as-a-service company. It is the performance leader in predictive advertising management software for paid search, social, display, and mobile. QuanticMind is reinventing advertising management software for enterprise-level advertisers. The company has brought together machine learning, distributed cloud, and in-memory processing technologies to provide the most intelligent, most scalable, and fastest platform available. A global community of sophisticated marketers including Ogilvy, Advanced Auto Parts, and Glasses.com has upgraded to QuanticMind to take advantage of its smart data science and flexible big data engine

Quantifi is a marketing R&D platform for digital ads, unleashing the power of artificial intelligence to discover the audiences, channels and creative needed to drive growth for brands. With experimentation at its core, Quantifi takes the guesswork out of digital advertising and enables the discovery of a marketing formula at scale to learn exact audience targeting segments, creative options and channels working for a business. Through insights and recommended next steps, Quantifi coaches through experiments with the backing of data from thousands of experiences.

Quantified Care brings a new opportunity for payers and providers to perform remote monitoring and management of the chronically ill while engaging patients to become active participants in their own healthcare. For healthcare organizations managing patients struggling with chronic conditions such as hypertension, heart failure, and asthma, Quantified Care helps these patients better manage their health, provides care managers with real-time insights, and facilitates engagement to collectively reduce the likelihood of readmission.

Quantifind is a technology company that helps brands understand and identify which customer segments are impacting business outcomes like revenue and market share. Quantifind's technology is grounded in the science of Intent Forecasting, a field that it has pioneered since the company's founding by two physicists from Stanford University.

Quantopian is a browser-based algorithmic trading platform with the power of cutting-edge data science. The platform combines the flexibility to instantly integrate any data with the simplicity to get started developing in minutes. Quantopian makes the full potential of quantitative trading available to investors by giving them access to the power of data science. Quantopian gives people access to the tools, capabilities and community they need to create and optimize their own trading algorithms in an open and transparent environment, and then put those algorithms to work in the live market.

Quantros helps healthcare providers improve quality and patient safety by empowering organizations, at every level, with the actionable intelligence they need to improve outcomes and reduce risk. Quantros provides cloud based tools and resources for the full spectrum of the healthcare industry in the areas of safety and risk management, quality and performance improvement, accreditation and compliance, and centralized decision support. Today more than 8,000 healthcare provider entities use Quantros solutions to capture meaningful data to effectively drive the decisions that improve the safety and quality of care.

Developed by a team of experts from organizations including The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nike, Apple, IDEO and Massachusetts General Hospital, Quanttus combines breakthroughs in vital signs monitoring with advances in contextual analysis to create wearable technologies that, for the first time, help people proactively understand their bodies and improve their health. Quanttus wearable devices measure the most clinical-grade vital signs while seamlessly integrating into every part of your life from work to play to rest. Instead of simply delivering data, Quanttus delivers the most complete picture of your wellbeing and personalized insights to improve your health and to live well.

Quantum Circuits, Inc. (QCI) was founded in 2015 with the goal of developing, manufacturing and selling the first practical and useful quantum computers based on superconducting devices. QCI was founded by three world-leading experts in quantum devices and information processing from the Department of Applied Physics at Yale University: Michel Devoret, Luigi Frunzio, and Robert Schoelkopf, joined by Brian Pusch, currently QCI's President. Their group has produced many scientific firsts, including the development of a "quantum bus" for entangling qubits with wires and the first implementation of a quantum algorithms and error-correction with a solid-state device.

Founded in Columbus in 1999, Quantum Health is an award-winning consumer navigation and care coordination company serving the healthcare needs of self-funded public and private sector employers across the U.S. With a background in consumer behavior and a deep understanding of how real people experience healthcare, Quantum Health has a proven history of making client's benefits plans more efficient while maintaining industry-leading satisfaction rates and claims savings.

As the provider of quantum-safe encryption, Quantum Xchange gives commercial enterprises and government agencies the ultimate defense to keep high-value data safe - today, tomorrow and in the future. Offering the first and only quantum fiber-optic network in the United States, Quantum Xchange enables organizations to send infinitely secured data over long distances using the laws of quantum physics. Leveraging the proven secure Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) method and its own exclusive Trusted Node technology for unlimited point-to-point distances, Quantum Xchange's future-proof, secure, data-transmission infrastructure addresses the shortcomings inherent with modern-day encryption: the ability for keys to be intercepted, corrupted or exposed during transmission, and the imminent threat of quantum computers.

Quartet Health was launched in 2014 by Arun Gupta and Steve Shulman. The company has developed a secure, cloud-based technology platform that addresses the problem of access to behavioral health care resources. Quartet\'s platform allows medical and behavioral health clinicians to work collaboratively on shared treatment goals, while giving patients access to technology-enabled care. The platform is backed by sophisticated data science tools that give health insurers and provider systems population health insight on gaps in care, provider network quality, and utilization patterns driven by behavioral/medical comorbidities.

Quartet Medicine is a private, biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing novel treatments for chronic pain and inflammation. Human genetics and preclinical target validation data point to increased tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) as a critical mediator of peripheral nerve dysfunction and immune cell regulation. Quartet is capitalizing on these insights by safely restoring BH4 homeostasis in neuronal and inflammatory cells.

Quartzy lab management platform used by more than four thousand labs around the world. Quartzy works with suppliers to host their catalogs to ensure that all relevant technical information is current and easily accessible to its members. With an engaged community, Quartzy represents a novel platform for suppliers to get product feedback from researchers all over the world and a way to promote their offerings effectively.

Qubell, an innovator in automated application deployment and configuration management for web-scale applications, addresses a primary challenge in online businesses today: how to reduce cycle times and continuously deliver new applications and features without jeopardizing control, reliability or uptime. The Qubell platform brings true agility to online enterprises by transforming how they create, deploy and run applications. Founded by pioneers in enterprise cloud applications and services, Qubell has its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

Qubit's personalisation platform helps brands meet the demands of the Apple, Google and Uber generation of consumers, where user experience trumps marketing hype. Built around the needs of omnichannel businesses, its technology collects detailed information about users' interactions with a website and analyses it to identify patterns of behaviour that drive onsite revenue and inspire business-wide optimisation decisions. Founded in 2010 by four ex-Googlers, Qubit is headquartered in London with offices in New York and Paris. Qubit works with some of the world's leading ecommerce businesses, including TOPSHOP, Uniqlo, John Lewis, Jimmy Choo and Staples.

Headquartered outside Philadelphia, Quench is a clean-technology company that rents and services 'bottle-less' water filtration systems (also known as point-of-use water coolers) and ice dispensers for businesses and institutions across North America. Quench systems purify tap water, providing a more cost-effective and environmentally-responsible solution than delivery of water in 5-gallon plastic jugs. With an installed base of over 27,000 customers across 49 states, Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean, Quench is the largest independent bottle-less water company in North America.

Quench Bio is a biotechnology company leveraging new insights into gasdermin biology and innate immunity to develop medicines for severe inflammatory diseases. Quench's lead compounds target and inhibit the pore-forming protein Gasdermin D, a central player in both pyroptosis and NETosis pathways that mediates the release of inflammatory cytokines, alarmins, DNA and NETs. Quench Bio launched in January 2020 with $50 million from leading life science investors including Atlas Venture, Arix Bioscience, RA Capital and AbbVie Ventures.

Quentis Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company that is translating novel biology into new therapeutic approaches to help more cancer patients benefit from immunotherapy. Based on our deep expertise in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress biology and the tumor microenvironment, we are pioneering first-in-class ER stress response modulators to boost the immune system's ability to fight cancer. Our lead program is a first-in-class IRE1a inhibitor. We are pursuing multiple additional ER stress pathway targets in the tumor micro-environment, as well as in other diseases where ER stress plays an important role.

Querium was founded in January 2013 to help 24 million students master critical math and science skills, enabling them to achieve their career goals. Designed for digital natives, Querium's mobile learning software platform delivers smart diagnostics and personalized, bite-sized lessons. Its unique, cloud-hosted, artificial-intelligence (A.I.) software products are targeted at U.S. middle school, high school and college students.

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, privately-held QuickPay Corp. is a leading provider of unified mobile parking technology. QuickPay provides a cloud-based mobile parking access and revenue control system that integrates with any legacy parking infrastructure, enabling parking and transit owners and operators to unify their assets under a single low-cost, fast-deploy mobile payment platform.

With access to Quid, users have hundreds of thousands of indexed resources - from news articles to business filings, patent applications to blog posts - to aggregate, analyze, and visualize patterns in order to discover insights. The Quid web platform has become an essential research tool within marketing and communications research, brand strategy, product development, and technology landscaping. Quid engineering is at the forefront of distributed parallel processing, NLP and graph processing in the browser. More than 80 blue-chip companies have become Quid customers since the launch of its web platform in early 2014, including management consulting firms, media agencies, and other leading enterprises. In March 2015, The Boston Consulting Group a leading global management consultancy, entered into an enterprise-wide relationship in order to expand the proven impact of Quid.

Quidd is the leading platform for buying, trading and using premium, rare digital goods. Available for free on iOS and Android devices, the Quidd app enables fans to buy, own and use digital stuff, like stickers, GIFs, cards and toys, to express their fandoms, construct their identities, and have more fun with their favorite things. The best names in entertainment, including Marvel, Game Of Thrones, Rick And Morty, Breaking Bad, and more, are using the Quidd platform to reach new audiences and build new businesses.

Quikly provides a platform of marketing solutions focused on customer retention, acquisition, and revenue generation. Trusted by leading brands, Quikly's scalable technology allows digital marketers the ability to generate demand in a meaningful way in real-time and drive far better return-on-investment per marketing dollar spent. The company is supported by a team of experts and partners who share a passion for consumer psychology and marketing innovation and are on a mission to make engagement between brands and consumers fun again.

Quintel is an innovative leader in wireless network antenna technology development. The company's products enable wireless operators to independently deploy and optimize multiple air interfaces and/or services on a single standard antenna platform. Quintel is the only antenna supplier whose products can increase a wireless network's capacity, and the number of services, without increasing the number of antennas or size. Our core technologies originated in the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence, and are now deployed throughout the world. Quintel is headquartered in Rochester, New York with additional offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

Quirky is a social product development company that brings new product ideas to life through its online collaborative platform. Quirky's global community of over 260,000 members collaborates with Quirky's in-house team of designers and engineers on all aspects of design from sketch to store shelves. Anyone can participate on Quirky.com either by submitting their own product idea for $10, or by voting, determining pricing and influencing other people's product ideas. 30 cents of every dollar generated from the direct sale of a product on Quirky.com goes back to these influencers.

Quixey is The Search Engine for Apps - searching mobile, desktop, web and browser apps. Quixey invented a new type of search, Functional SearchTM, that allows users to find apps by searching for what they want to do. Quixey partners with major app stores, search engines, manufacturers, carriers and web platforms to power app search globally.

Qumulo is a privately held enterprise data storage company based in Seattle. The company was founded in 2012 by Peter Godman, Aaron Passey, and Neal Fachan, engineering veterans from Isilon and architects of the Isilon OneFS distributed file system. Qumulo is backed by venture capital firms Highland Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla Partners.

Quorum provides assured, one-click backup, recovery and continuity, helping businesses safeguard their revenue, customers and reputation. The award-winning Quorum series of appliance and hybrid cloud solutions makes continuity a reality for small to mid-sized companies, letting them recover from any type of disaster within minutes. Most importantly, Quorum is simple and cost-effective. If your company avoids just 30 minutes of downtime, the Quorum solution pays for itself.

Quotient Biodiagnostics, through its operating subsidiaries, is a trusted leader in transfusion diagnostics. The Group serves major transfusion diagnostic companies as an innovative product development and supply chain partner and the blood banking and transfusion medicine community through the direct provision of high quality transfusion diagnostic products proven over 30 years to ensure safe and reliable blood transfusions.

Quri is a retail analytics and intelligence company that provides instant visibility into the performance of products and promotions on retail store shelves and the analytics to correct the problems that are found. Half of the top 25 CPG brands in the world, including Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Tyson and Unilever, use Quri to measure and optimize the shopper experience, maximizing the revenue and profitability of new product rollouts and on-going promotions. Quri is powered by a nationwide, on-demand mobile workforce of consumers who can be immediately deployed at more than 150,000 retail locations, providing real-time data and insights to brands and retailers.

QuVa Pharma is a nationally recognized company emerging as the leading industry 503B platform and partner of choice for compliance-oriented healthcare facilities looking to ensure a quality, safe and consistent supply of medications. The Company offers a broad portfolio of products across Pain Management, Anti-infective, OR Syringes, Labor and Delivery therapeutic areas amongst others, all of which are released only once sterility and potency testing is successfully complete, and with validation supporting appropriate BUD. The company is committed to having a patient-first orientation, as well as a robust product portfolio, leading safety standards, and collaborative, partnership-oriented customer service.

Qventus' mission is to simplify how healthcare operates so it just works -- for everyone. The company offers an AI-based software platform that helps hospital teams make better operational decisions in real-time, with positive impacts on financial performance and patient experience. Qventus addresses operational challenges across the hospital including emergency departments, perioperative areas, patient safety, inpatient, outpatient and pharmacy. Located in Silicon Valley, Qventus is honored to be working with leading public, academic and community hospitals across the United States. Qventus was named among Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for 2018. The company has also been recognized as a leader and innovator in operational excellence, with the 2016 Fierce Innovations Award in Healthcare and Healthcare Informatics 2017 Innovator Award.